Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix. Robert P. Murphy

Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix - Robert P. Murphy

As the US wrestles with its growing fiscal crisis, Northern Light examines what lessons Americans and their political leaders might draw from how Canada in the 1990s slew its deficit dragon, balanced the budget, fixed public pensions and social welfare and in so doing helped forge a national consensus in favour of responsible public finances that endures to this day.